A Bleeding Heart

A SasuSaku fanfic

Chapter 21: monster

Hello!!!! I just decided to go ahead and finish this story, then get on with the other one, Death and Rebirth. guh.....my hubbys gone to training...and wont be back for another 5 in a half weeks!!! D; I miss him so much..... I had a dream the other night, about this story. so I am going to finish it. and I realized that I left Karin out. lol. I bet many of you are asking yourselves, what the fuck happened to the skank? You'll find out in this one.

Oh...and I don't own Naruto.

UchihaSanNin

Chapter review

"if he stays in that state for too long, he is liable to go insane. He wouldn't know who you are, who he himself is, or anyone or anything."

She was still for a second or two, and closed her eyes. When she opened them, a tear fell down her cheek, unheeded. "Sasuke...." She then used her inhuman strength to rip free from her binds, and lunged at the Uchiha.

She threw a punch, concentrating all of her chakra and anger into it. It landed in his face, and sent him reeling a couple feet. His wings snapped out, and helped him catch his balance. "........." He lunged at her, faster and stronger. SHe couldn;t dodge the knee that seemed to come out of nowhere. It made a direct hit with her belly, and she doubled over. Blood dripped steady from her mouth, and she gagged. spit and blood hit the grass, and she fell to one knee.

I won't.....I CAN'T....give up...I can save him....bring him back to who he was....Sasuke....!!

She slowly straightened, but didn't raise her fists this time. The monster that Sasuke had become lunged once again, eyes blazing. She closed her eyes, waiting for the beating, and it didn't come. She slowly opened her eyes, to see silver hair. Two hands were straining to hold back the fist that was meant for her. Muscles bulged, sweat dropped, and bodies strained against one another. "Kakashi sensei?!" She gasped, and he looked over his broad shoulder at her.

"Yo....." He struggled against the Uchiha, then threw him off, He then uncovered his right left eye, and said, "Get out of here. He'll kill anyone in his path now. There isn't any stopping him."

She stood defiantly, and looked over at Sasuke. "There is....." She whispered, and ran at him. Kakashi lunged for her hand, but missed. He started toward the fight, but it was already too late.

"Sasuke-Kun!" She yelled, and gathered the chakra into her fists. "Stop!!!!!!!!" She ran at him head on, and Kakashi's heavy footfalls faded in the distance behind her. Sasuke's wings flared out into a wide arc, and carried him away faster than she could run. "Sasuke!" Then, as he flew backwards even further, his wings snapped back, and sent him toward her with amazing speed.

Her eyes widened, trying to gauge how fast he was. She threw her fist out, pumping all the chakra she could into it. It made contact with his face, and it sent him reeling.

She fell forward with the momentum and sudden loss of balance. She rolled, and looked up to see the Uchiha lying on his side, struggling to get up. 'Sasuke-Kun...' She thought. She looked around, and stood quickly. When did we get into the forest...? She was so engrossed in their battle that she didn't even realize it until now that they were in unfamiliar territory.

Sasuke stood, glaring at her with those glowing ember like eyes, and she looked away emmidietly. Then he suddenly hunched over, fisting his hands into his long, purple colored hair. "Gaaaaaah!!!!!!"

She watched, seemingly entranced. "Sasuke-Kun!" She ran to him, and stopped at his side, as close as she dared to get. "Sasuke...I'm here.....please.....stop this...." She lightly touched his shoulder with her hand, then his arm lashed out. A loud rip resounded through the air, and she looked down to see a large amount of fabric in his hands. The left side of her kimono was ripped, all the way down to her thigh. It gaped open, and she grimaced. "Great......" Sasuke loked up at her, through pained eyes. The curse mark was starting to recede slightly, and his eyes were starting to go back to normal.

"Sasuke...." He glared at her, his eyes flickering from crimson red to black once again, and she threw herself at him. He nearly fell, and regained his balance as he took a few steps backward. "Sasuke....come back to me!" She sobbed against his mouth. "Please!"

He resisted at first with incredible force, trying to shove her off of him, but she held on with all her strength. Then, he started to relax.

Then the next thing she knew, a burning pain erupted around her waist, and she gasped. But instead of air passing through her mouth and lungs, there was only a loud scream of pain.

She looked down to see scales. White, sharp, snake head-like scales. Sasuke's eyes had turned back to their obsidian color, and he watched helplessly, mouth hanging slightly, and he fell backwards to the floor. She was yanked backwards, and then thrown thirty feet to the left. She landed on the ground, writhing in pain, with her arms around her middle, dispite the fact thatit only added to the burning.

She wanted to heal herself, but she couldn't. She had to save her chakra for whatever had just attacked her now. She stood up, panting, and stared her attacker down.

What she saw made her eyes go wide. Her air supply seemed to disappear, and she forgot how to breath. "What the.....the fuck is this....?"

She was staring at the largest snake that she'd ever seen. black hair along the jawline and head, green, familiar eyes.....white scales....This snake seemed so familiar.

"O....Orochimaru....." She murmured, then heard a familiar giggle from behind her.

"Ding ding," Karin cried out in a high voice, and Sakura jerked toward her. "You guessed it, Sakura-Chan! Orochimaru's true form.....Sasuke successfully destroyed his body...and now he wants yours...." She giggled cynically, and Sakura glanced at her other assailant. He sat there, poised and ready to strike at any second.

Kain stood there with a huge grin on her face that seemed to go from ear to ear. "And...as soon as you're gone....Sasuke is all mine...." Sakura sneered at her.

"You don't know the full intent of Orochimaru's plans now do you, Karin....?"

"Yeah, he wants your body in place of Sasuke's since you've become so much more powerful. which is really freaky, since Sasuke is just as strong....."

"He wants my husbands eyes also, you dumbass!" Sakura yelled, finally loosing her cool. Then she felt the ground vibrate underneath her feet, and she dodged to the right. She pumped chakra into ehr hands and feet in order to make her move just a bit faster nextime. Orochimaru's large and deadly, hollow fangs narrowly mised her body by mere inches.

Sakura looked back to where she left Sasuke. She leaped away to evade another lunge, then jumped up into the air, with a fist pulled back. "Bastard!!!!" She yelled, and then threw the punch. Her fist came into contact with the snake Sannin's hide, and it litereally ripped the flesh from her hands. But the snake also took damage. The bones in his body where he was struck were broken, and the large area was crushed plat like a pancake.

Orochimaru hissed loudly, and swng around toward the pinkette. "Unimaginable power....." He screeched, and lunged. "I will have it!!!" And Sakura was too slowt his time, for she already used her last vestiges of chakra.

And everything for Sakura Uchiha went black.

She didn't wake up for what seemed like hourse. she felt her body being compressed by something slimy, soft, and squishy. Her eyes flew open to see pinkish red colored flesh surrounding her body. It squirmed and writhing, making noises as it squezzed her even tighter, and squezzed the air out from between it and herself. Her lungs seemed to get even tighter, and she tried to escape.

Another large bulk of squirming, red/pink flesh suddenly started to compile together in front of her, not ten feet away. Orochimaru's sickly green face suddenly formed in the front, and she gasped. "Where am I?"

"Somewhere you cannot escape from, Sakura-chan....." He chuckled madly, and Sakura's struggles increased tenfold.

"Get away!!!!" Sakura screamed, as a large fleshy arm extended toward her. "Don't come any closer!" Orochimaru just laughed madly, and moved closer and closer.

"You're mine, my blossom!!!!" He shreiked, and Sakura closed her eyes, flicnhing back, even though she probrably looked as if she didn't move at all de to the flesh that surrounded her own body.

Nothing.........

Then an ear peircing screech filled her ears. She opened her eyes and saw the snake freak, still covered in flesh, but bakc where he originally was stainding, ten feet back. But this time it was different.

He was being consumed by dark, ebony black flames. Her eyes widened in horror as the flames crept over in her direction. 'What is this!?' her inner screamed at her.

'I don't know!!!! But we have to get out of here!!!!'

Then, a black blur flew right past her face, and the next thing she knew, whe was uin someones arms, and everything was back to normal. She spazzed out, and struggled against whoever she was laying on. "NO!!!!" She fell out of her savior's arms, and hit the hard (Not Squishy) ground.

She flew up to a standing position, then saw Sasuke standing in front of her. Shirtless, beatn pretty badly, bleeding, and looking very, very tired. his left eye was bleeding. He was breathing heavily, and she stared at him. "Sasuke...." He stared back at her, and releife washe over him as the curse mark on his right shoulder started to swirl around, then disappear.

"Sasuke.......what.....what-"

"Sasuke-Kun!!!!" She was cut off by the loudest, most annoying screech she'd ever heard that ironically included her husbands name. A flash of red came out of nowhere, and Karin latched onto her object of affection. Sasuke Uchiha. The exhausted man tried to get away from her, but it was of no use.

"Allright, bitch...." Sakura growled, and grabbed Karin by the neck of her shirt. She twirled her around, and punched her right in the face. Karin fell backwards, on her back, out like a light. Sasuke gave her an exhausted and thankful look, and leaned toward her. She moved over to him, and caught his bodyweight agianst her own. "Sad....I didn't even use any of my chakra....." She glared down at the redhead, and grimaced. Kakashi suddenly appeared out of nowhere in front of them, and stared at teh two of them.

"Sakura......Sasuke....." He paused, trying to think of the right words. "I....YOu have got to get to a hospital...." He looked back to where the white snake was lying on the ground. Black flames engulfed it's long, , lithe body. There was no way that he'd survive that. 3 days, and 3 nights of burning.

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UchihaSanNin